Pilet hits Kickstarter for $200 and up: Portable modular computer powered by a Raspberry Pi 5

The Pilet 5 is a Raspberry Pi 5-powered handheld computer with a 5 inch display, a built-in keyboard, and a set of buttons, joysticks, and scroll wheels for navigation and gaming. And the Pilet 7 is a portable computer with a larger display and a modul…

The Pilet 5 is a Raspberry Pi 5-powered handheld computer with a 5 inch display, a built-in keyboard, and a set of buttons, joysticks, and scroll wheels for navigation and gaming. And the Pilet 7 is a portable computer with a larger display and a modular design: you can attach a keyboard, gamepad, or other […]

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New $120 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 is for the people who use it like an everyday PC

But at $120, the new board has to compete with a wider universe of mini PCs.

The Raspberry Pi foundation has spent the last year filling out the Pi 5 lineup—in August, we got a cheaper $50 version with 2GB of RAM, and in December, we got the Pi 500, a Pi-inside-a-keyboard intended specifically for general-purpose desktop use. Today, the Pi 5 board achieves what may be its final form: a version with 16GB of RAM, available for $120.

The 16GB version of the Pi 5 includes the revised "d0" stepping of the Pi 5's BCM2712 processor. For the Pi's purposes, this chip is functionally identical to the original version but uses slightly less power and runs slightly cooler because it cuts out silicon used for features that the Pi 5 didn't take advantage of.

Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton writes that the 16GB version of the Pi 5 is possible because of other tweaks made to the d0 stepping of the Pi 5's processor, plus an updated LPDDR4X chip from Micron that could fit eight 16 Gbit RAM dies inside a single package that could fit on the Pi 5's board.

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Linux Foundation bands together Chromium browser makers in a “neutral space”

Open source group aims to better organize and fund development of browser.

Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers sounds like a very niche local meetup, one with hats and T-shirts that barely fit the name. But it's really a "neutral space" for funding and support, corralling together some big names with a stake in the future of Chrome's open source roots, Chromium.

The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit started in 2000 that has grown to support a broader range of open source projects, spurred the initiative. In a press release, the Foundation states that the project will allow "industry leaders, academia, developers, and the broader open source community" to work on Chromium, with "much-needed funding and development support for open development of projects."

A few names you don't often see together are already on board: Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Opera. Krystian Kolondra, executive vice president of browsers at Opera, stated in a release that "as one of the major browsers contributing to the Chromium project," Opera would "look forward to collaborating with members of the project to foster this growth and keep building innovative and compelling products for all users."

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MVNO: Bundesnetzagentur weiter gegen Öffnung der Mobilfunknetze

Die Anhörung bei der Bundesnetzagentur bringt keine Verbesserung für die Weiterverkäufer von Mobilfunkkapazität und -verträgen. Der Breko protestiert. (Bundesnetzagentur, Verbraucherschutz)

Die Anhörung bei der Bundesnetzagentur bringt keine Verbesserung für die Weiterverkäufer von Mobilfunkkapazität und -verträgen. Der Breko protestiert. (Bundesnetzagentur, Verbraucherschutz)

How the UK was connected to the Internet for the first time

And a few months later, the Internet’s first password.

The Internet has become the most prevalent communications technology the world has ever seen. Though there are more fixed and mobile telephone connections, even they use Internet technology in their core. For all the many uses the Internet allows for today, its origins lie in the cold war and the need for a defence communications network that could survive a nuclear strike. But that defence communications network quickly became used for general communications and within only a few years of the first transmission, traffic on the predecessor to today’s Internet was already 75% email.

In the beginning

Arpanet was the vital precursor of today’s Internet, commissioned by the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) in 1969. In his interesting account of why Arpanet came about, Stephen Lukasic, Director of Darpa from 1970-75, wrote that if its true nature and impact had been realised it would never have been permitted under the US government structure of the time. The concept for a decentralised communications technology that would survive a nuclear attack would have placed it outside Darpa’s remit (as defence communications specifically were assigned to a different agency), so the focus changed to how to connect computers together so that major applications could be run on the most appropriate system available.

This was in the era of time-sharing computers. Today’s familiar world of the ubiquitous “personal computer” on each desk was decades away. Computers of this time were generally very large, filling entire rooms, and comparatively rare. Users working at connected terminals would submit jobs to the computer which would allocate processing time for the job when available. The idea went that if these computers were networked together, an available remote computer could process a job even when the computers closer to the users were full. The resulting network was called Arpanet and the first packets of data traversed the network in September 1969.

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MINISFORUM N5 Pro is a 5-bay NAS with AMD Strix Point, up to 96GB RAM, 10 GbE LAN, and OCuLink

Mini PC maker MINISFORUM is branching out into the network-attached storage space. The upcoming MINISFORUM N5 Pro is a NAS with support for up to five hard drives plus three PCIe NVMe SSDs. But what really makes it stand out are some of the computer&#8…

Mini PC maker MINISFORUM is branching out into the network-attached storage space. The upcoming MINISFORUM N5 Pro is a NAS with support for up to five hard drives plus three PCIe NVMe SSDs. But what really makes it stand out are some of the computer’s other features like an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 370 Strix Point […]

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Intuitive Machines set for second landing, looking to build a lunar economy

“You just can’t trash everything associated with the Moon and go to Mars.”

Five years ago, a small company in Houston named Intuitive Machines had just 30 employees, a couple of 3D printers, and a few soldering irons.

Oh, and it had some big dreams. The company's founders wanted to open a business on the Moon.

On Wednesday morning, when I drove into the company's new headquarters at Spaceport Houston, there were no spaces to park in a lot filled with hundreds of cars. Inside, the offices were buzzing. And a large integration hangar was packed with hardware: two lunar landers, two lunar rover mock-ups, a hopper, and other spaceflight vehicles.

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